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But each team should be able to define its limitations and surmount them well enough to assemble a playoff team, if not a championship team, in a league in which 40% of teams make the playoffs.

What makes it extra special: “Wildflowers like nothing I’ve ever seen around the L.A. area in the spring. And when the clouds roll in as you hike to the summit above them, it’s quite magical. The way back has treacherous eroded mini-canyons, you have to surmount carefully, so the reward at the end makes it much better.”

That’s precisely why I forced myself to surmount my anxiety on the second day of Lollapalooza when we were slated to see the Chilis.

Biden in particular struggled to surmount voters’ concerns that he would be fit to govern the country well into his 80s.

But he warns that many similar reform attempts failed in the past; for this one to be useful, “there should be a strong political will to go ahead and to surmount resistance.”